code for old English s character

You can find a lot of unusual characters by going to www.unicode.org. All the
references are given in hexadecimal, but the PHP hexdec() function converts
hexadecimal to decimal. You then just use the decimal code point as a numeric
entity.

I had been looking on a similar page http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm which
seemed to have anything but what I was looking for.

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I don't believe any character set has that character, nor does any have
the small "y" indicating a "th" sound. By the way....


Old English:

Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum


Middle English:

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;


(Early) Modern English:

And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy

--
James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com

David Powers wrote:

There is: ſ

I didn't know that. Of courfe, I haven't needed to ufe thif character
very often.

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http://www.jshook.com

On 13 Aug 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, David Powers wrote:

A.Translator wrote:
So there is! Thank you very much, David.

My pleasure. You can find a lot of unusual characters by going to
www.unicode.org. All the references are given in hexadecimal, but
the PHP hexdec() function converts hexadecimal to decimal. You then
just use the decimal code point as a numeric entity.

Simple, really. The only problem is hunting for the right character
in the Unicode code charts. Unicode attempts to cover every written
language living or dead, so it was bound to be there somewhere.

Do you know if search engines will read that character as an 's'? As I
understand it, they'll read, say, é (é) as an e.

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David Powers wrote:

My pleasure. You can find a lot of unusual characters by going to
www.unicode.org. All the references are given in hexadecimal, but the
PHP hexdec() function converts hexadecimal to decimal. You then just use
the decimal code point as a numeric entity.

Simple, really. The only problem is hunting for the right character in
the Unicode code charts. Unicode attempts to cover every written
language living or dead, so it was bound to be there somewhere.

I spent ten minutes on this site and could never find the chart you did,
evidently. Is it just me or is that site cryptically structured?

--
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http://www.jshook.com

I think the terminal s may still be used in German--have you looked at foreign characters?

James Shook wrote:

I spent ten minutes on this site and could never find the chart you did,
evidently. Is it just me or is that site cryptically structured?

Go to charts:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/

It's in Latin Extended-A (at the bottom-right on the second page of the
PDF file). I wouldn't say that the site is cryptically structured, but
looking for something obscure can be like looking for a needle in a
haystack. I knew it must be in one of the Latin scripts. It was just a
case of skimming through each one till I found it.

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I think the terminal s may still be used in German--have you looked at
foreign characters?

Are you talking about the Ringel-S? ß That is in DW code hints.
I am talking about an *early modern* English character, but found it thanks to
David Powers.

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Adriana.
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www.spinsister.nl

James Shook wrote:

I don't believe any character set has that character, nor does any have
the small "y" indicating a "th" sound.

Is this what you mean?

þ

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Ebonics:

Yo, yo, Bro!

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"James Shook" <jshook (AT) dont_mail (DOT) com> wrote

I don't believe any character set has that character, nor does any have the
small "y" indicating a "th" sound. By the way....


Old English:

Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum


Middle English:

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;


(Early) Modern English:

And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy

--
James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com